Building a Business Is for the Birds

Ever find yourself lost in a tunnel? Lost your job. Lost your best client. Lost your trust in yourself. How you got there isn’t the point. The problem is whether you’ll find your way out.

You’re faced with a choice. Do you keep walking forward, lay down in the dark, or try to blast through to the outside?

The voices in your head tell you that you’re foolish to think that anything but walking will get you anywhere. The voice in your heart is broken and tired. Yet the voice in your soul whispers, “Don’t give up.”

And you have this thought that maybe . . . well, they say that there is always a darkest hour . . . but you wonder whether the world you believe in exists only in your mind.

I’d like to offer one word.

Fly!

Fly out of that tunnel. That’s what the birds do. They take a deep breath, look to the light, and keep flying until they’re in the sun again.

Oh yeah, it’s work. Oh yeah, they get tired. But every instinct tells those birds to keep flying on, . . . and oh yeah, they sure seem to know when they get where they’re going. And when they get there, they sure look like they belong.

The world needs your song, your determination, and your laughter. The world needs you to “Build and Become.” No one else brings your version of clever.

Fly.

We’re waiting for you.

You belong in the sun.

–ME “Liz” Strauss
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